This is a blog of the various forms of mail advertisements that are targeted toward the elderly.
Each entry represents a mailing from a company that sends material to my father, who, as he was falling into dementia, fell for a lot of these "cures", "newsletters", "hot stocks", etc.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

There were no comments on this blog for quite a while, so I did not keep it up. Apologies. I can see that there was a surge of posts.

My Dad has been living in a nursing home for two years. Amazingly, we keep getting this type of mail for him, generally in batches.You would think that they would take him off the mailing list.

What is sad is that he was swindled out of most of his savings. While many may say that he did this himself, the problem was that he was entering dementia and we didn't realize it. He worked very hard to hid his confusion, so it was too late by the time we took charge. Had I known the symptoms of mild dementia and had watched him closely, we would are a room in the nursing home.